Individual Details
Sarah Lovejoy
(22 Feb 1772 - Bef 2 Apr 1821)
Events
| Birth | 22 Feb 1772 | Maine Colony, Pownalborough (now Dresden) |  |  | |
| Marriage | 27 Jun 1789 | Matthew Lincoln | | | |
| Census (family) | 1790 | Vassalborough, Lincoln, Maine, United States - Matthew Lincoln | | | |
| Census (family) | 1800 | Sidney, Kennebec, Maine, United States - Matthew Lincoln | | | |
| Marriage | 1803/04 | Maine, United States - Dodivah Townsend | | | |
| Census (family) | 1810 | Sidney, Kennebec, Maine, United States - Dodivah Townsend | | | |
| Census (family) | 1820 | Sidney, Kennebec, Maine, United States - Dodivah Townsend | | | |
| Death | Bef 2 Apr 1821 | Sidney, Kennebec, Maine, United States |
Families
| Spouse | Matthew Lincoln (1764 - 1837) |
| Child | Francis Lincoln (1790 - ) |
| Child | Isaiah Lincoln (1792 - ) |
| Child | William Lincoln (1794 - ) |
| Child | Susan G. Lincoln (1796 - ) |
| Child | Rebecca Lincoln (1798 - ) |
| Child | Sarah Lincoln (1801 - ) |
| Spouse | Dodivah Townsend (1765 - 1833) |
| Child | Sumner Townsend (1807 - 1881) |
| Child | Columbus Townsend (1810 - ) |
| Father | Captain Abiel Lovejoy (1731 - 1811) |
| Mother | Mary "Polley" Brown (1741 - 1812) |
| Sibling | Nathaniel Lovejoy (1759 - 1849) |
| Sibling | Mary D. "Polly" Lovejoy (1761 - 1789) |
| Sibling | Frances "Fanny" Lovejoy (1762 - 1812) |
| Sibling | Abiel Lovejoy Jr. (1764 - 1858) |
| Sibling | Thomas Lovejoy (1766 - 1817) |
| Sibling | Francis Lovejoy Sr. (1768 - 1841) |
| Sibling | Abigail "Nabby" Lovejoy (1770 - 1854) |
| Sibling | Hannah Lovejoy (1773 - 1844) |
| Sibling | infant Lovejoy (1775 - 1775) |
| Sibling | Col. Stephen Lovejoy (1776 - 1859) |
| Sibling | William Lovejoy (1778 - 1872) |
| Sibling | Jacob Lovejoy (1780 - 1871) |
| Sibling | Betsy Lovejoy (1782 - 1810) |
| Sibling | infant Lovejoy (1784 - 1784) |
| Sibling | Phebe Lovejoy (1785 - 1871) |
Notes
Birth
or 12 Feb 1772Marriage
Pub. Vassalborough June 27, 1789(B. Reynolds has Polly Lovejoy, b. Charlestown, Mass. 30 April 1761, as Matthew's wife, not Sarah)
Census (family)
Mathew Lincoln 111Census (family)
Mathew Lincoln 21010 20010David Smiley 31110 01210
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Dovider Townsen 11010 21100
Moses Hastings 11102 31103
Stephen Lovejoy 00100 10100
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Abiel Lovejoy 00311 11202 2
Abiel Lovejoy Jr. 31010 21?10
Matthew Lincoln 7 people:
2 boys under 10
1 boy 10-16
1 man 26-45, Matthew (36)
2 girls under 10
1 woman 26-45, Sarah (28)
Marriage
Sarah probably m. about 1803 or 1804 Dodivah Townsend of Sidney, a widower with seven children and probably divorced Matthew Lincoln who m. Feb 5, 1807 Betsey Rollins (Lovejoy 91).Beatrice Reynolds says that Sarah (Lovejoy) Lincoln never divorced her husband, so she and Dodivah were never legally married, although she and Dodivah had Sumner and Columbus. Her husband Matthew Lincoln m Feb. 5, 1809 Betsy Rollins
Census (family)
Dodivah Townsend 31001 111103 males < 10 (Sumner, Columbus
1 male 10-16
1 male 45+ (Dodivah ~45)
1 female <10
1 female 10-16
1 female 16-26
1 female 26-45 (Sarah L 38)
Dodivah Townsend 2nd 51010 10020
5 males < 10
1 male 10-16
1 male 26-45
1 female < 10
2 females 26-45
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David Townsend 00100 00000
1 male 16-26 (David unmarried)
Daniel Townsend 10010 00000
1 boy < 10
1 male 26-45 Daniel
Census (family)
Townsend, David, 400010 00100 01Townsend, Dodivah, 020101 00001 03
8 people
2 boys 10-16 (Sumner & Columbus)
1 man 16-26
1 man 45+, Dodivah (52)
1 woman 45+, Sarah
3 slaves
Townsend, Stephen, 100100 00100 01
Endnotes
1. Lovejoy, Clarence E., The Lovejoy genealogy with biographies and history, 1460-1930: especially recording the American descendants and the English ancestry of John Lovejoy (1622-1690) of Andover, Mass., and of Joseph Lovejoy (1684-1748) of Prince George County, Md., but also embracing all known data on other persons bearing the Lovejoy name whether or not identified with the emigrant ancestors (New York: Lovejoy, 1930), 91; digital images, Heritage Quest Online (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com : accessed 10 November 2009.
2. Lovejoy, Clarence E., The Lovejoy genealogy with biographies and history, 1460-1930: especially recording the American descendants and the English ancestry of John Lovejoy (1622-1690) of Andover, Mass., and of Joseph Lovejoy (1684-1748) of Prince George County, Md., but also embracing all known data on other persons bearing the Lovejoy name whether or not identified with the emigrant ancestors (New York: Lovejoy, 1930), 91; digital images, Heritage Quest Online (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com : accessed 10 November 2009.
3. Beatrice Reynolds, "Townsend, Bibber, Hastings, Lovejoy, Lincoln and related families," e-mail message from (, Maine), to Nancy Prouty, September 2008–November 2009.
4. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1790 > MAINE > LINCOLN > VASSALBOROUGH Series: M637 Roll: 2 Page: 135.
5. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1800 > MAINE > KENNEBEC > SIDNEY Series: M32 Roll: 7 Page: 399.
6. Lovejoy, Clarence E., The Lovejoy genealogy with biographies and history, 1460-1930: especially recording the American descendants and the English ancestry of John Lovejoy (1622-1690) of Andover, Mass., and of Joseph Lovejoy (1684-1748) of Prince George County, Md., but also embracing all known data on other persons bearing the Lovejoy name whether or not identified with the emigrant ancestors (New York: Lovejoy, 1930), 91; digital images, Heritage Quest Online (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com : accessed 10 November 2009.
7. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1810 > MAINE > KENNEBEC > SIDNEY Series: M252 Roll: 11 Page: 793.
8. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1820 > MAINE > KENNEBEC > SIDNEY Series: M33 Roll: 35 Page: 111.